What motherboard should I use for a DIY NAS? (lemmy.zip)

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I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.

So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.

I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.

Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.

If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.

The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.

Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler

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[+] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's fair, though it is keeping the community alive

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I do miss r/sysadmin

We need some actual sysadmins to post

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I am an actual sysadmin, at my last place of work I was the only Linux sysadmin, I still worked mainly in a 365 environment as a Helpdesk technician and a VIP technician.

At my current place of work I am a 365 admin.

I thought that since building a NAS is in the interest of other sysadmins, and when I posted my last thread it was fine that I should continue.

Especially since it seemed pretty dead since I posted the last time.

Some semi-related content seemed better than no content.

But if these questions are better served by another community, I will move there.

And yes, /r/sysadmin is the best forum for getting help in the sysadmin world that I have used.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Instead of giving a unhelpfull response, point the op to where he's question might be better suited.

Like the selfhosted instance.

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